NYPD union boss urges Tarantino film boycott over director's comments

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Source: The Guardian

NYPD union boss urges Tarantino film boycott over director's comments

Following remarks made by the film-maker at an anti-police brutality rally in
New York on Saturday, the city’s largest police union has called for a boycott

Nigel M Smith
Monday 26 October 2015 19.40 GMT

Quentin Tarantino lost some fans over the weekend in New York – the city’s police.

The film-maker, whose eighth film The Hateful Eight open this December, has become the target of a boycott on the part of New York’s largest police union, after he was spotted taking part in a march against police brutality called Rise Up October on Saturday.

The Oscar-winning director flew in from California for the rally, which was attended by around 300 protesters.

Simon Moya-Smith
@SimonMoyaSmith

Quentin Tarantino marched with us today in #NYC in protest of police brutality & negligence. #RiseUpOctober
4:08 PM - 24 Oct 2015 · Manhattan, NY, United States

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[backscatter712]

1. It's important to remember that police unions are not real unions.

They're phony-ass strikebreaker unions. And that particular phony police union is infested with subhuman reptile-brained garbage.

[Logical]

4. +1000, many here forget that. "good" cops protect bad cops so they are not really good cops. And ...

the "union" should want bad cops gone as much as anyone. But they don't.

[hifiguy]

7. The one who lies or remains silent to protect

those known to be guilty are every bit as guilty themselves and deserve the same punishment.

IIRC it's called misprision of a felony.

[GeorgeGist]

2. So the union is in favor of brutality and negligence?

[hifiguy]

6. It's what they do.

All day, all night, every day. It's in their nature.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. I'd rather boycott the NYPD. At least until they get effective civilian oversight. n/t

[hifiguy]

5. The number of fucks given by Tarantino about the

police Mafia's, oops, union's opinion:



Not even Batman can find one.

[edhopper]

8. Yawn

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